Blizzard of 2011

The weather forecast for late Tuesday afternoon said that we would have 1-4 inches per hour in total accumulations of up to 20 inches of snow, plus high winds with blowing snow.  This would be on top of the already 8 inches on the ground, 3 inches from Monday night and would continue to dump more snow Wednesday afternoon. 

Never sure exactly of what will really fall from the sky, we embraced for the worst.  School for Cooper and also for Brewer and I were closed by 1:30 Tuesday afternoon for today....our first SNOW DAY!!!!

Buster woke us up at 1:15am this morning with a need to go outside. As much as we were not pleased to be up at this hour, it was also a blessing in disguise. Randy got all dressed in his snow gear and headed out the front door to dig out the back door. A drift had blown us shut.  After Randy came back in, we discovered the the furnace was not working.  The vents in the back were snow covered and as a result, the furnace shut down.  Back out to dig out the furnace vents.  With the furnace back up and heating us back up, we all settled back down to get some more sleep.

We woke up later to the drifts across the street.  The only time that I have seen snow like this are in pictures from Minot, North Dakota back in 1976.

Mr. Les, across the street, was working on digging his way out. The snow is up mid-thigh at the end of the driveway and he is as tall as Randy is....NOW THAT IS DEEP!

Its a good thing that Randy stopped by the guy across from Indian Trails and picked up a snow blower, otherwise I would be the one out there playing damsel in distress in hopes someone would come over and help us.

Good thing the neighbor to our right (from the street) is a vacant house...at least we had the fence to break up the drift in our backyard.  It is nothing but a straight  drift the entire length of the back yard.

Right now, Buster needs to go out to the driveway to go to the bathroom, the backyard is drifted shut.  Now they are forecasting below zero temps for Thursday and temps to reach the 30's by the weekend.  Fox 6 News reported that we have 23.2 inches of snow!

Before the plows starting going down the street, two snowmobiles went by the house.  Cooper is impressed with all of the "teamwork" to get the snow plowed!!!